Plugin

howl

Howl is a blazing-fast Go statusline HUD for Claude Code. It reads JSON telemetry from stdin and renders a rich ANSI statusline with 13 real-time metrics: model badge, context usage bar, session cost, duration, git status, code changes, response speed, cache efficiency, API wait ratio, cost velocity, OAuth quota, active tools, and running agents. Features adaptive layouts (2-4 lines normal, 2 lines danger mode at 85%+ context), 4 configurable presets, 12 individual metric toggles, and ...

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Analysed

11 October 2026

Last observed

11 October 2026

What the code does

• Runs shell commands Code that starts system commands on the machine it runs on.
• Runs hooks automatically Hooks that execute without being called explicitly.

Having a capability is not wrongdoing; many tools need these to do their job. It tells you what to check before you install.

This is public metadata, not a safety certification or complete assessment. Static analysis cannot establish what a tool does at runtime.